Program Description

Start your career faster with the same depth of clinical experience as other nursing programs in Chicago. After three years in Roosevelt’s accelerated nursing program, you’ll be fully prepared to take the NCLEX exam and become a registered nurse. At Roosevelt, you’ll learn more than the essentials of nursing — you’ll learn how to analyze complex situations, make solid clinical decisions and offer compassionate care to your patients.Learn from experienced nurses who could one day be your coworkers. In the Roosevelt BSN degree, you’ll work with diverse patient groups during clinicals at places like:

• Humboldt Park Health
• Northwestern Medicine
• Sinai Health System
• Weiss Memorial Hospital
• Roseland Community Hospital

Illinois needs more than 21,000 nurses to fill the health care shortage in the state. Roosevelt graduates have launched successful careers at:

• Advocate Health Care
• Amita Health Care
• Ingalls Memorial Hospital
• Little Company of Mary
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• NorthShore Health System
• Northwestern Medicine
• Weiss Memorial

Admission Requirements

The program will evaluate your application holistically, with an emphasis on your academic achievement in high school. Successful candidates have:

• 12 academic units in English, math, laboratory science and social science.
• Minimum 2.5 cumulative unweighted grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
• Minimum 1200 SAT-I or 23 ACT.
• Activities demonstrating leadership, teamwork or a commitment to community service.

Nursing applicants should have at least one year of high school science and math:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Highly recommended: three years of high school math and a science course in your senior year.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
6	6	6.5	6	6.5

Remarks:

• I20(Visa Letter) can be obtained only after submitting a bank statement with a balance of USD $50,068.
• Yearly tuition fee is given.
• Foreign Credential Evaluation required